The communal and the sacred: women's worlds of ritual in Uzbekistan.

From: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute | Date: June 1, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

This article analyses women's participation in life-cycle, religious, and propitiatory rituals in Uzbekistan against the background of the 'politicization' of custom under the Soviet regime and fluctuations in official policies towards Islam since the post-Soviet period. Despite changes in official discourse, the resilience of women's rituals may be explained in terms of their embeddedness in local notions of communal participation and their role in the day-to-day reproduction of communal life. In the post-Soviet period, ritual has become a site both for the assertion of authentic Uzbek ...

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